It also helps to hit the space bar when you does open a midi file. This will also send the initial information if you're at the beginning of the track.
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 13, 2015, at 8:50 AM, Juan Bello <[email protected]> wrote: > > not sure about loading custom patches or programming, but the roland > has a rather unique way of operation and the manuals should have been > clear on that. Re: not sounding what it would sound like, Maybe, that > happens when you say, open a midi file and start playing it from bar 2 > or 3 and thus the sequencer will not send the initial information > because you are already past it. Pressing control q will send the > initial midi file information, while control w will send the curren > actual information (for example if you are on bar 10 and there was a > program change on bar 6 it will send that immediately to your > controller) > > 2015-08-13 10:29 GMT-05:00, Scott Lawlor <[email protected]>: >> Hi there. >> >> >> >> I answered one of my questions about the metronome. >> >> >> >> I guess you have to turn it off when you're playing back the track but this >> does bring up a couple of other questions. >> >> >> >> I have a .mid file that has 4 tracks and when I opened it up, the >> instruments weren't as they were when I exited and saved the last time. >> >> >> >> for instance, track 1 channel 1 is called harp and it was a piano. I went >> back into properties and it showed everything as I had set it up so I just >> moved to the next instrument in the back and then back to the harp and it >> was the right one. >> >> >> >> I wonder if there's something wrong with my setup that it's not recognizing >> what I've selected and I have to reselect it? >> >> >> >> The only thing that I can think of is that since I am using the Roland >> fa06/08 consolidated list, that maybe the choices are going to be different >> depending on what expansion packs I load into the synth. I wonder though, >> if I upload different packs to use different sounds for something else, and >> then upload the ones that I had used for this midi file, does the Roland >> put >> the data from those different packs in different banks each time you load >> them? >> >> >> >> I don't know enough about how all those expansions are allocated and what >> goes where when something is uploaded. >> >> >> >> Thanks for the further help. I think once I get the hang of this midi >> stuff, I'm going to like recording this way and I can see myself setting up >> loops for play while I improvise in real-time for my program on the >> internet. >> >> >> >> Scott > > > -- > Juan Pablo Bello > Cel. 313-879-2884 > To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com > > for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To unsubscribe or change list options, see http://lists.andrelouis.com for archived list posts, see http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
